_Winnipeg Store News as it Will,
Perhaps (?) Be Reported in the
Halcyon Days of, Say, 1945 A.D._
MR. GEORGE ASHBROOK, our resident buyer in Buenos Ayres, South America,
wirelesses his congratulations to _The Beaver_ upon its attainment
to its twenty-fifth year of publication. He adds that the annual
revolution in Peru will occur two weeks later this spring on account of
the prolongation of the rainy season.
THE MARRIAGE is announced of Frank R. Rogers, the prominent young
Winnipeg banker, son of our print-shop and book bindery superintendent,
to the belle of the season, Miss Helen Ogston, on Tuesday next. Social
circles are all agog over the event.
SHORT WEEK-END air flights from surrounding suburbs to see Winnipeg
with its 1,000,000 population and its Hudson's Bay Store, are becoming
quite the thing. Among those who alighted gracefully upon the store's
roof-garden 'drome last week-end and dropped in to see us all, we
noticed Mr. W. J. McLaughlin, of Vancouver; Mr. J. Prest, of Edmonton;
Mr. F. R. Reeve, of Calgary, and Mr. Hudson, from Hudson Bay, the
genial senior partner of the firm. Mr. Reeve stated that his engine
had been "missing" ever since he passed over Regina. A search party
had been organized to locate it. "Mac" declares it is still raining in
Vancouver, but (like the cold one does not feel) Coast rain does not
wet one!
DURING BONSPIEL week a very great curiosity visited the store. An old
gentleman with a typical Scotch tam upon his head roamed through the
aisles with the fires of recollection burning in his eyes. The snow of
many Winters was upon his brow and as he moved gingerly about leaning
heavily upon his cane he was evidently an interested spectator of the
great progress evidenced on every hand. His manner and garb plainly
bespoke that prosperity and independence which possession of plenty
of this world's goods always develops. He claimed to be Mr. George
Bowdler, erstwhile champion curler and a member of the store's staff
twenty years ago.